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Assessment days: Do they pass or fail?

A single day assessment can deliver the right candidates, provided firms fully invest in the process and prospective employees carry out a variety of exercises, writes Louise Hadland

8 November 2016

When some people hear the words ‘assessment centre’, they shudder. ‘What good could possibly come from testing a diverse group of people against psychometric assessments that resemble little of the jobs they apply to undertake?’ they think. It is a somewhat popular preconception of assessment centres that, in a lot of ways, is merited.

It is true that people, their talents and qualities, do not always fit in to nice, neat little boxes, and that simple assessment days where candidates sit in front of a computer for hours on end simply will not do the job.

However, when deployed correctly in an immersive environment, there is little else better than the assessment day model for finding the right candidates. Assessment centres and assessment days have, in the last decade, also proven to be a popular solution to alleviating the protracted process of gradu...

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